4th Place Finish

What a difference a year makes. This time a year ago Arsenal fans the world over were frustrated after a long hard fought season where we made it hard for ourselves once more and eventually managed to scraped 4th place. Manchester United had won the league and Fergie had just retired. Many Arsenal fans were debating whether or not we should part with our own iconic manager who had delivered champions league football once again but had failed to bring any trophies to the Emirates stadium. The atmosphere was pretty toxic and that didn’t get no better by the time the season started as yet again arsenal had apparently missed opportunities to sign some quality players in the transfer window and had also failed to sign a world class striker. We’d just got spanked by Villa and many were baying for blood.

Then it all changed. The notoriously tight with…